In the beginning I may have tried to remain apolitical when writing for this blog, but clearly as the blog has evolved we have all become more comfortable allowing our personal biases to slip into our posts. Kudos to g0b0t for his recent and scathing indictment of Paula Deen for her duplicity.

If I cannot use this platform to communicate about things I am passionate about, what use is this platform? What good is this exercise? We certainly aren't in it in the money, nor the fame. So let's lay our cards on the table and not hold them close to the vest.

There are people who believe that homosexuality is unnatural. The same people do not believe that evolution is real. They are wrong on both counts: evolution is a fact of nature, as so is homosexuality.

"I'm Coming Out? Over the Rainbow?" complained R, a gay male software developer and mastermind behind Cocktails on a Bus. "Could you be more condescending?" R was complaining about the music choices for today's corporate sponsored Pride event on our campus.

So, we had something special to celebrate... and celebrate we did, with this delightful cocktail provided by Miss C, a transgendered coworker (I brought ice, another coworker brought various mixers: a collaborative effort indeed).